Post by: Martin
After a great 4 days this week with Footplate Experiences and a day on service trains between Kidderminster and Bridgnorth, we hope that many Deltic fans will be attending the Severn Valley Railway’s Spring Diesel Festival between the 18th and 20th May. Once again the Severn Valley have amassed a huge variety of locos, which […]
55 022 is due to arrive at the Severn Valley Railway on Monday, below is the schedule for the locomotive during her three week holiday. We hope to see many Class 55 fans visiting the Railway during this time and show their support for the loco and the Railway. The loco will remain in late […]
55 022, as 55 018 ‘Ballymoss’ is scheduled to haul 31 271 and 45 041 ‘Royal Tank Regiment’ from Wansford on the Nene Valley Railway to the Severn Valley Railway at Kidderminster on Monday 1st May. The train has the regular 0Z55 headcode and timings that we have are as follows:- See 0Z55 on RealTimeTrains […]
The 3 days of Footplate Experience Days at the Nene Valley featuring driving 55 022 in it’s current guise of 55 018 ‘Ballymoss’ taking place on Thursday 25th May, Monday 12th and Tuesday 13th June are filling up rapidly with only a few spaces now available. If you would like the chance to drive our […]
In Celebration of the historic running of steam locomotive 60163 ‘Tornado’ running at 100 mph on 12th April, we are pleased to announce a special ‘Deltic 100’ event at the Nene Valley Railway’s ‘Best of British’ weekend. Travel behind two 100 mph East Coast Giants on the same day with the same inclusive ticket. Take […]
The Nene Valley Railway was another great event, helped immensely by nice weather on the Saturday and Sunday. It was good to see many Deltic fans in attendance and 55 022 being one of the star attractions, in its current disguise as 55 018 ‘Ballymoss’. Our sales stand did very well and as always it […]
55 022 departed from the North Yorkshire Moors Railway as planned yesterday and travelled to the Nene Valley Railway at Wansford, together with steam loco 46100 ‘Royal Scot’ as far as Newark. The loco was finally parked up at Wansford around 9 o’clock last night and is now ready for the diesel gala taking place between […]
Today, we received the new cab side windows for ‘Gordon Highlander’, those for one cab should be re-assembled soon together with the frames, handles etc. The frames from the other cab windows will be collected from Washwood Heath as these are delivered. They certainly look very nice and the difference in transparency is absolutely amazing […]
We have now been advised of the planned loco roster for the Nene Valley Railway’s spring diesel gala taking place between Friday 7th and Sunday 9th April. In addition to 55 022 running as 55 018 ‘Ballymoss’, other locos in service should be D9520, D9529, 31 271, 45 041, 47 815, 50 008, a DB […]
Timings for 55 022 running as 55 018 ‘Ballymoss’ on Tuesday 4th April are below. 5Z60 GROSMONT TO YORK NATIONAL RAILWAY MUSEUM 46100 ‘Royal Scot’ hauling support coach and 55 022 on the rear. Grosmont Dep. 07.50 Glaisdale Arr. 08.02, Dep. 08.11 Battersby Arr. 08.53 55 022 hauling support coach and 46100 ‘Royal […]